![]() ![]() As the pictures in this gallery attest, it would prove absolutely essential to the war effort during WWII.Īs a matter of fact, as the Japanese Navy grew during the 1930s, many ships had already been transferred from Brooklyn to the Pacific to deal with the potential menace. The yard had contributed ships to every American conflict, including the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Like so many vessels that saw action in World War II, the Arizona was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, founded in 1801. Of the 1,177 Arizona sailors killed that day, 1,102 have the ship as their final resting place. The Navy, which was able to salvage an astonishing number of ships damaged or sunk by the Japanese, could not fully salvage the battleship USS Arizona (slides 1 and 3 in the gallery.) Today, the spot where the massive ship went down is the site of the USS Arizona Memorial, which straddles the sunken hull and commemorates the events of that long-ago Sunday. With reckless daring Japan aimed this blow at the citadel of American power in the Pacific.” 15, 1941 issue, “World War II came with startling suddenness to America. ![]() ![]() (The number dropped to less than 70,000 by 1946.) “Out of the Pacific skies last week,” LIFE magazine wrote in its Dec. Afterwards the number of soldiers spiked there were several hundred thousand stationed in Hawaii by 1945. For its part, Japan lost 64 men and 29 planes.Īt the time of the attack, there were roughly 50,000 troops based at Pearl Harbor. Japan’s early morning assault on Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu, lasted less than two hours, but took an incredible toll: four battleships sunk, 188 aircraft destroyed, 2,403 Americans killed. Here, presents photos most of which never ran in LIFE magazine from Hawaii and the mainland, chronicling a nation’s resolute reply to an unprecedented act of war. responded to the attack, is often overlooked. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii-a “date which will live in infamy.” In fact, that Sunday morning is so seared into America’s memory that the tumult of the critical weeks and months afterward, as the U.S. 7, 1941-when Japan launched more than 350 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes against the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt declared Dec. ![]()
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